The Bafta-winning co-creator of Gavin and Stacey, and the Richard & Judy Book Club author of Love Untold, brings her joyful and life-affirming new novel By Your Side to Hay Festival, in this conversation with journalist and former BBC correspondent Julia Wheeler.
Linda and Levi will never meet. But they’re going to change each other’s lives. Linda investigates the lives of those who’ve died alone and tracks down any living relatives. She’s been a friend to the friendless for the past 33 years, and now she’s looking forward to early retirement. But before she hangs up her lanyard, Linda must take on one last case – that of Levi, a Welshman who’d made his home on a remote Scottish island.
